Our Temporary Exhibit at the Sohag Museum: “حضرة صاحب العزه”

Recently, we were invited by the curators of the soon-to-open Sohag Museum to set up a temporary exhibit in a large hall located on the museum’s second floor. We chose about 60 documents from our archive that deal with a wide range of topics, and range in date from 1880 to the mid-1900’s. The name of our exhibit is “hadret sahibel-ezza” which translates roughly as ‘your excellency.’ This is only one of the ways (now no longer in use), in which officials in our archive were being addressed in the letters that were sent to them and the Antiquities Authority during the early 1900’s. Pass by the exhibit if you want to find out more about our work, what type of documents we are finding, and the important role Egyptians played during Egyptology’s formative years!

Ayman Damarany and the rest of the ATPA team in the temporary exhibit hall of the Sohag Museum

We would like to thank the Ministry of Antiquities for this opportunity, especially Dr. Khalid el-Anani. We would also like to thank Dr. Mostafa Waziri, Secretary General of the MOA, Dr. Elham Salah, Director of the Museum Sector, and Dr. Sherif Abdel-Moniem, our friend.